AR Insider

MAY 3, 2021

This week we look at Zoom’s new immersive view, Looking Glass’ latest milestone, the latest AR funding rounds and the return to physical events. AR images are as flawless as a QLED. Trainees can use Oculus or Google Glasses to learn in a virtual rendering of the facility from almost anywhere around the world.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. OK, I will be able give a more definite verdict after I actually get a hands-on demo first thing tomorrow, but in the meantime, here are our first impressions from having seen the live demos on the stage here at MWC Barcelona. Spatial Anchors.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Here you are my recap of the most interesting XR news of the week! Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. If the report were true, this would mean that Apple doesn’t believe in AR anymore and this would be terrible news for all the immersive realities ecosystem. Oculus is working on 2nd gen VR. So, don’t panic.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Authors’ opinions are their own. . Like the waves of web, mobile and social before it (SoLoMo anyone), spatial computing: AR and VR will provide new opportunities for brands and marketers to reach, engage and understand consumers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

Some companies have already teased or revealed what they are going to announce, while others are just waiting the right moment to surprise people. But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC. Of the many granted, here’s a few of the most interesting AR/VR patents we’ve found: Beamsplitter assembly for eye tracking in head-mounted displays. SEE ALSO Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Thinks AR/VR is a Solution to the Housing Crisis. . % Change. Rank Change.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

More info (Jon Prosser’s video) More info (Apple’s proprietary QR Codes) More info (Steve Jobs AR glasses). Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. Happy birthday, Oculus Quest! We’ll see…. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In the AEC environment, XR solutions are quickly becoming a critical part of the modern workflow. AR and MR solutions can make it easier to show projects to clients, giving them an insight into what a finished result might look like. Additionally, Microsoft Mesh also integrates with Microsoft Teams for collaboration.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Nreal is for sure one of the most interesting AR startups on the market. It got the attention of all the press at CES 2019 revealing an AR glass that is light, fashionable, and affordable. Through the lenses of nReal glasses connected to my PC: all the text is easily readable, and also colors are very sharp.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s that time of the week when I report to you the best news of the week in the AR/VR fields, so fasten your seatbelts and get ready! Eye-tracking is very important for marketing scenarios, to evaluate what you are looking at when you’re watching a commercial of a product, for example. Top news of the week. Image by HP).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This one is the last AR/VR news roundup for this summer! References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Top news of the week.

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ARVR

JUNE 9, 2021

For this reason we have decided to take a look at how the players in this market are moving in an attempt to understand what direction they are taking and on what type of devices they are orientating, in order to understand, as developers and end users, what we can expect in the coming months and years. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

AR glasses are on the rise. While the first version was an all-in-one with diffractive waveguides like Microsoft HoloLens, the new one is an all-in-two light device that connects to your smartphone and uses birdbath optics. per-eye resolution. Oculus Link gets updated to 90Hz. Top news of the week. Image by JVC).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

While with other VR headsets like the Vive Focus Plus it is already possible to do some kind of augmented reality , this is the first standalone headset that can provide both good quality AR and VR on the same device. These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2020

The leading standalone VR headset, Oculus Quest, has been increasingly focusing on controllerless hand-tracking as a means of input for the device. Other major headset makers, like Microsoft and its HoloLens 2, have also honed in on hand-tracking as a key input method.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

It’s good news by the way that there is continuous IPD adjustment (and with a wider range than before) and that thanks to eye tracking sensors, the headset can tell you if you have positioned it well on your head. There is also an eye-relief dial, so you can put the lenses very close to your eyes, for added field of view.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Top news of the week. Image by WalkingCat).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

If you missed them, take some time to read them, because they are very interesting! And after that, come back here, because there are the most important pieces of AR/VR news of the week we have to talk about. Oculus Quest 2 keeps showing impressive sales stats. Oculus Avatars), plus the features of the store (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. Other relevant news. New details on the Lynx MR headset.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

Now, more than ever, companies are under increasing pressure to explore innovative new methods of promotion at a time when face-to-face interactions between brands and their consumers are less common. Today, Meta can ensure companies of all sizes have powerful ways to reach their audience wherever they are, whether through AR, or XR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Magic Leap is back: CEO Peggy Johnson has just unveiled in a post on the company blog the Magic Leap 2 , the new version of the AR glasses from the company in Florida.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2019

As reported by Reuters , Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai yesterday, saying that HoloLens 2 will go on sale sometime in September. Image courtesy Microsoft. Check out our in-depth hands-on with HoloLens 2 for more. SEE ALSO OpenXR 1.0

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Microsoft releases Azure Remote Rendering. supports VR.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

Intended for its own swath of Varjo-branded headsets, the new display configuration promises “unprecedented resolution of VR and AR content limited only by the perception of the human eye itself.” inches diagonally that boast 3,000 pixels per inch (PPI)—a significant jump from Oculus Rift of HTC Vive’s 447-461 PPI.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). As Karl Guttag and all the other experts say, there are various breakthroughs in optics and other technologies that have to be performed before having mainstream AR, so until this happens, AR will still just be a niche. Standalone/All-in-two headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. The old Reverb was already a great headset, with a 2K per eye resolution that was above all the other headsets on the market (with the exception of Pimax, of course).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And of course, between a glass of champagne and a slice of panettone, there is still time for VR, so here you are a collection of best VR news of the past week! Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Oculus Quest 2. The biggest announcement of the event has been for sure the Oculus Quest 2, that Facebook has not only revealed but also launched. Oculus Quest 2 is a great piece of technology. Then Oculus will move the whole experience to 90Hz. The magic of the Oculus Quest 2 (Image by Facebook). Specifications.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

March has just started… I hope it will be an amazing day for you and for all the AR/VR ecosystem! Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 30, 2022

I totally want them to care more about our privacy, and I’m all in with Avi Bar-Zeev in having better management of eye tracking data on the Quest Pro. As an indie developer, I totally hate the fact we are relegated to the B-store App Lab, with limited features and monetization possibilities.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Trendy AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

This roundup of the most important AR/VR news of the past week comes out with a little delay since I’ve been very busy with my development job, and I’ve also a damn cold that doesn’t make me feel very well (but it’s no coronavirus, don’t worry :D). iPhone 12 may feature a special connection for AR glasses. Sorry for that!

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